Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 124
It was a weary journey for the defeated king and his wounded steersman.
Who acts: injustice · What happens: be, defeat · To what, where: weary journey
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (injustice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 journey | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 journey | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 journey | det |
| 4 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 journey | amod |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 8 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 king | amod |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 journey | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 steersman | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 steersman | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 steersman | amod |
| 13 | steersman | steersman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 journey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | injustice | a weary journey | for the defeated king and king's wounded steersman | tree rules | |||
| 2 | defeat | participle | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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